Thanks all I appreciate the information. This will help as I move forward!
Thank You, Terry Martin Lockheed Martin - Information Technology z/OS & z/VM Systems - Performance and Tuning Cell - 443 632-4191 Work - 410 786-0386 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________ From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Troth Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 10:41 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Newbie VM Guy old z/OS Guy It's a good idea for everyone to get their feet wet. But no, don't give them maint privs unless they are doing work that specifically requires that. Also, don't replicate MAINT for every privileged "user". VM has a history of user oriented interactive work. (Forgive me for repeating things you already know.) The interactive component is CMS and each CMS user must have his own virtual machine. The fact that you can reboot that virtual machine to run other operating systems (like Linux, z/OS, or even second level z/VM) makes it just that much more fun!! The trick will be to get your team familiar with those VM commands which they will use going forward, things which will make their jobs easier. I am always tempted to try and translate TSO concepts into CMS (or CMS concepts into Unix/POSIX/Linux). Sometimes that helps, but there is no substitute for learning the real nature of the system you are learning. So ... comparing ISPF to XEDIT to 'vi' is not all that constructive, but comparing Q ALLOC SPOOL and Q ALLOC PAGE to 'df' might be. -- R; <>< On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Martin, Terry R. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi I am working on the z/VM z/Linux POC. I have set up z/VM for this POC and have come a rather long way in a few months. I have an administrative question in terms of z/VM. Now that I got VM up and stable I am getting requests from the z/OS system folks to have user ids created. From what I can tell it does not seem to make much sense in the VM world to have everyone with a user id, because frankly not sure what must folks would do with them. In order to come up with a user that for instance has MAINT power I would need to basically duplicate MAINT correct? Anyway, do you normally set up VM like TSO on z/VM, that is have all of these user ids out there? Thank You, Terry Martin Lockheed Martin - Information Technology z/OS & z/VM Systems - Performance and Tuning Cell - 443 632-4191 Work - 410 786-0386 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
